From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Rectangular regions Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2013 09:00:00 +0200 Message-ID: <834n7vb85r.fsf@gnu.org> References: <52707D17.6010801@dancol.org> <8338niefba.fsf@gnu.org> <87a9hq8h7p.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> <838ux8d05z.fsf@gnu.org> <83d2mjc49i.fsf@gnu.org> <83a9hnc2qv.fsf@gnu.org> <527408C4.9090503@dancol.org> <838ux7c1qt.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1383375623 1068 80.91.229.3 (2 Nov 2013 07:00:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 07:00:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dancol@dancol.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Josh Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 02 08:00:27 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VcVC6-0007Gn-0k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Nov 2013 08:00:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40885 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VcVC5-0000UL-NV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Nov 2013 03:00:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34742) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VcVBy-0000UD-0d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Nov 2013 03:00:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VcVBt-0007Nw-BI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Nov 2013 03:00:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:62423) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VcVBt-0007Ng-3f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Nov 2013 03:00:13 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MVM00E00J9NXK00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Nov 2013 09:00:11 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MVM00ERNJGANT80@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Sat, 02 Nov 2013 09:00:11 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:164848 Archived-At: > From: Josh > Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 16:35:05 -0700 > Cc: Daniel Colascione , > Stefan Monnier , > emacs-devel > > I also use rectangle commands in programming modes from time to > time, and not in comments. For example, I can often perform > simultaneous edits to common substrings of columnar data such as > enum elements far more efficiently with a rectangle command than I > could using a keyboard macro or replace-regexp. The important questions: are these uses more frequent than using GUD on the same sources? > I also use rectangle commands quite often when when transforming > extracts from log files into a form suitable for programmatic use. In this case, the rectangular mark is not set in a buffer where the major mode supports some programming language. So I don't think these cases count for the discussion at hand.